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Brian VanHooker

Brian VanHooker is a staff writer at MEL specializing in pop culture, food (especially pizza) and long form oral histories. He is the co-creator of the comic book "Barnum & Elwood" and "The Tramp," a comedy pilot starring John O'Hurley. He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast called "Turtle Tracks" and was once called a "Good Guy" by Mr. T.

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Why Pizza-Flavored Snack Foods Never Taste Anything Like Pizza

From Combos to Pringles to Keebler’s defunct Pizzarias chips — why can’t anyone get this right?

The Man Who Gave His Balls to Wikipedia

In the war over whose testicles get to be featured on Wikipedia — rendering them arguably the most famous balls on the internet — one superfan called Emptybone fought his way to scrotal success

Drunk on Medicine Episodes Are the Best Episodes of Every Sitcom

From ‘I Love Lucy’ to ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’ sitcom characters have been tripping on meds for almost 70 years

Inside the World of Bootleg Action Figures

I Ate Mac and Cheese for Breakfast for a Week. Here’s How It Went.

A WWII Historian Explains the Dark History of Pixar’s ‘Cars’

Does Every Cereal Mascot Have a Matching Astrological Sign? Heck Yes!

‘Big Sausage Pizza’: The Very Cheesy (And NSFW) Inside Stories

Three Education Experts School Us on ‘Billy Madison’

I Tried to Count Every Single Bullet in ‘The Matrix’

Frozen Pizza as We Know It Began in Only 1995

An Oral History of ‘Steamed Hams,’ the Funniest ‘Simpsons’ Scene Ever Recorded